BIOL 708/808 Ecological Sciences Seminar: Modern Topics in Statistics for Ecologists

Tuesday 1:00-3:30 MGB 311

Thursday 1:00-3:30 MGB 353

Format of the class

The class will meet twice each week. One pair of students will sign up for a topic. During that pair's time slot, they will present the topic, including a peer-reviewed journal article as well as the R code. The pair will lead a discussion of the assigned paper. Vicki's summary

Grading:

50% journal article discussion

50% participation

Class Syllabus

Date Room Pair Topic Reading
1/12 311 Vicki / Eric

R Beginner

R Script

houses.txt

AIC Discussion

Symonds and Moussalli (2011)

Garamszegi (2011)

1/14 353 Vicki / Eric

R Basic Analyses

AIC Discussion

Burnham et al. (2011)

Mundry (2011)

1/19 311 Vicki / Eric

R Intermediate Analyses

Dataset

Other Discussion (GLM, GLMM, AIC)

Johnson & Omland (2004)

Bolker et al. (2009)

1/21 353

Vicki / Eric

 

Amanda / Ellen

R AIC Analyses

AIC dataset

Mantel Tests (Package: vegan)

AMOVA clusters

Geo-Gen_Matrix_Cuning

Mazerolle (2006)

Meirmans (2012)

1/26 311

Adam / Marla

Spencer / Gaya

Leah / Alexis

Multidimensional Scaling

Survival Analysis

acorn dataset

Vital Rates

Hout et al. 2013

Murray & Patterson (2006)

Frederiksen et al. 2014

1/28 353

Nick / Tiffany

Brian / Mike

Natasha

Brownian Bridge Movement

Logistic Regression

Kernel Home Range Estimates

Kranstauber et al. 2012

Peng et al. 2002

Katajisto & Moilanen 2006

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